Monday, December 17, 2007

Last Christmas...

Wait - before you read this - turn the music player on to the song. It will get you in the Wham! mood. I know you are all scared. Why would I post a picture of Wham! or add them to my playlist? But come on, I know all of you once loved Wham! like I did (if you are in your 30s). But, really I posted it because while I lived in Russa in 1995, my Russian host family loved to play this song off a cassette tape at dinner time. Go figure. They didn't even understand English. They kept asking me to translate the song and explain it to them. Since I didn't know Russian very well and they didn't know much English it was pretty funny. I gave you my heart but the very next day you gave it away.... Good memories of a December that was 12 years ago. Boy does time fly. I am ready for another adventure like Russia.

George Q. Cannon

As quoted in Jeffrey R. Holland's book Trusting Jesus (p. 14).

"No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, [God] will never desert us. He never has, and He never will. He cannot do it. It is [against] His character [to do so]. He is an unchangeable being...He will stand by us. We pass through the fiery furnance; we may pass through deep waters; but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. We shall emerge from all these trials and difficulties the better and the purer for them, if we only trust in our God and keep his commandments."